nonreading
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nonreading (not comparable)
- Not reading.
Noun
[edit]nonreading (usually uncountable, plural nonreadings)
- The act of not reading; a failure to read.
- 2001, Dale J. Pratt, Signs of Science, page 33:
- Their slanted representations, and even the selective acceptance practised by scientists who were also devout Catholics, produced a variety of readings and even nonreadings of Darwin's texts which obscured the science behind the theory.
- 2007 February 24, Alan Riding, “Read It? No, but You Can Skim a Few Pages and Fake It”, in New York Times[1]:
- Then why, he was asked, did he write a book that seems to justify nonreading?